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How I see ME Alliance - by Amera Salah RMA
Hi Colleagues and Migration Alliance Members
I have been registered as Migration Agent for more than 15 years, most of which I spent serving community members as a non-commercial migration agent until I resigned from immigration-funded positions and changed my status to a fee-charging migration agent in 2008.
Like you, I have been receiving emails from ME Alliance promoting various services and products, from CPD, networking meetings, benchmark products, expression of interest to become committee member. I must admit, when I received their email for the first time, I honestly thought this was part of Migration Alliance's services. Then, I learned that this is a different organisation. If that is the case, I thought:
"WHY DOES THIS PARTICULAR ORGANISATION POSE AS MIGRATION ALLIANCE?".
WHY DO THEY USE THE SAME LANGUAGE? WHY DO THEY PROMOTE SAME SERVICES, AND WHY DON'T THEY DONT USE THEIR FULL NAME? AND WHY DO THEY APPEAL TO US RMAs in SUCH A DECEITFUL MANNER?"
After this was brought to the light as a confusing issue, I noticed that ME Alliance included disclaimer in their publications that 'they are in no way associated with Migration Alliance'.
Please note that this disclaimer is in smaller font than other parts of the publications and at the bottom of the page. I also noticed spelling and grammatical mistakes in their publications, and don't get me wrong, I am from a non-English speaking background and English is my second language, and of course I make mistakes, but when I want to publish something, I always do proof-editing to make sure that the language is readable and understandable, for example, they misspelled the word 'Benefits' for members and you can go back to their publication sent on 22/1/2015!
As I mentioned above, I welcome other organisations to this profession and I know that some of us of MA members are also members of MIA and that is normal but my concern is that I believe that ME Alliance passes itself off as MA to reach to RMAs, and I found that to be unethical and confusing. I believe that this approach is deceitful and doesn't show any degree of respect to us RMAs.
From a colleague RMA.
Amera Salah
